Belgium and France have banned several 'unsafe' African airlines from landing, reports BBC News. These include International Air Service from Liberia, Africa Lines from the Central African Republic, and Air ... Read More

Zimbabwe's parliament has passed amendments to the constitution which, the BBC reports, "has raised serious concerns among human rights groups and the political opposition [as it] puts certain actions of ... Read More

Following a Lancet study, the World Health Organisation is recommending the drug artesunate, which is derived from traditional Chinese medicine, for the treatment of severe malaria, reports BBC News. Up ... Read More

27 August – 2 SeptemberHaile Selassie, last Emperor of Ethiopia, and William Edward Burghardt du Bois, American sociologist and writer, die; Cleopatra VII, the last Pharaoh of Egypt, commits suicide; ... Read More

During his travels in Mali in the 1990s Sebastian Schutyser was astonished by "the beauty of small adobe mosques in remote villages [which] revealed themselves as the living tissue of ... Read More

Work will start next month on a joint project between South Africa and Mali to build a library "to preserve more than 200 000 documents dating from the 13th century" ... Read More

20 – 26 AugustJomo Kenyatta is released by British authorities at the age of 71 and dies in office at the age of 86, the State of Emergency declared in ... Read More

Would you be able to walk 400 kilometres to your home? That's what a group of Sudanese have done over the past 14 weeks, trekking home after the end of ... Read More

The campaigning in the first contested presidential election in Egypt has started, with 10 candidates running. Incumbent president, Hosni Mubarak, who has been in power since 1981, is aiming for ... Read More

The police in the Kimberley, South Africa, have used a novel way of arresting wanted criminals -- sending them invitations to a party in the city hall, complete with DJ ... Read More

13 – 19 AugustCommand of the Eighth Army is given to Lieutenant General Bernard Law Montgomery, Pieter Willem Botha resigns and Frederik Willem de Klerk becomes President of South Africa, ... Read More

In a feature entitled "If You Think Africa is Suffering From a Brain Drain, Your Brain is Drained" a blogger at African Bullets and Honey says: "The argument goes something ... Read More

For a look at some of the customs and traditions associated with a child's naming ceremony in the Borana region in southern Ethiopia, take a look at this sequence of ... Read More

6 – 12 August The African National Congress in South Africa announces its intention to halt guerrilla attacks, the Herero people are massacred by German forces near the Waterberg ... Read More

The Centre for Text Technology at the North West University in South Africa has released four new spellcheckers in indigenous languages -- Setswana, isiZulu, isiXhosa and Sesotho sa Leboa. An ... Read More